Esther Fischer-Homberger
{{short description|Swiss medical historian and psychotherapist (1940-2019)}}
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Esther Fischer-Homberger (15 May 1940 – 21 March 2019) was a Swiss psychiatrist and medical historian.{{cite web |title=Institut für Medizingeschichte: Prof. em. Dr. Esther Fischer-Homberger - Universität Bern |url=http://www.img.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personen/prof_em_dr_fischer_homberger_esther/index_ger.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327091518/http://www.img.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/personen/prof_em_dr_fischer_homberger_esther/index_ger.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 27, 2019 |accessdate=December 14, 2019 |date=March 27, 2019|language=de}} Her research focused on the history of psychiatry, psychosomatics and forensic medicine as well as the medical history of women.
Biography
Esther Homberger was born in Affoltern am Albis, Canton Zurich on 15 May 1940.{{cite web |title=ESTHER FISCHER-HOMBERGER IST GESTORBEN |url=http://www.buero-dlb.ch/de/archiv/koerper-geist-seele/esther-fischerhomberger-ist-gestorben |publisher=Büro dlb |accessdate=December 14, 2019 |language=de}} She attended school in Zollikon near Zurich and Basel. Fischer-Homberger completed a medical degree in Neuchâtel and Zurich, her dissertation in psychiatric history being on the topic, "The circular madness".Esther Fischer-Homberger: "Das zirkuläre Irresein." 1968. In: E. H. Ackerknecht (Hrsg.): Zürcher medizingeschichtliche Abhandlungen. Neue Reihe Nr. 53. Zürich 1968. {{in lang |de}}
From 1968 to 1973, she was an assistant at the Medical History Institute of the University of Zurich with Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht. Her habilitation, "The Traumatic Neurosis; From somatic to social suffering" (1975), occurred at the University of Zurich.Esther Fischer-Homberger: "Die traumatische Neurose. Vom somatischen zum sozialen Leiden". Huber, Bern 1975, {{ISBN|3-89806-275-9}}, S. (Nachdruck Psychosozial, Giessen 2004). {{in lang |de}} From 1978 to 1984, she served as the chair for medical history at the University of Bern, from which she resigned in 1984 in favor of going into psychotherapeutic practice. In 1993, she received the diploma as a massage practitioner from the Esalen Institute, California. From 1997, she was a therapist of Katathym-imaginative Psychotherapy. After working as an assistant at the crisis intervention center of the University Psychiatric Services in Bern (KIZ / UPD Bern), she was a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy from 2005.
Fischer-Homberger was interested in the psychological and social functionality or dysfunctionality of words and concepts, especially in psychiatric, psychotherapeutic and medical use. Her research focused on the history of psychiatry, psychosomatics and forensic medicine as well as the medical history of women. Her publications and texts were on topics of international theory and feminism.Mark S. Micale: Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry. Princeton University Press, 2014, {{ISBN|978-1-4008-6342-6}} (google.ch [retrieved 17 March 2019]).Janet Price, Margrit Shildrick: Feminist Theory and the Body: A Reader. Routledge, 2017, {{ISBN|978-1-351-56709-1}} (google.ch [retrieved 17 March 2019]).J. A. Mangan, Roberta J. Park: From Fair Sex to Feminism: Sport and the Socialization of Women in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Eras. Routledge, 2013, {{ISBN|978-1-135-17570-2}} (google.ch [retrieved 17 March 2019]).Les Femmes Dans la Societe Europeenne Die Frauen in der Europaischen Gesellschaft. Librairie Droz, {{ISBN|978-2-600-05055-5}} (google.ch [retrieved 17 March 2019]). She conducted research regarding Pierre Janet (1849–1947). From 1961 to 2015, she worked for various media as a film reviewer.{{cite web |title=Esther Fischer-Homberger |url=https://www.journal21.ch/autoren/esther-fischer-homberger |website=Journal21 |accessdate=December 14, 2019 |language=de}}
Fischer-Homberger was married to Kaspar Fischer (1938-2000) from 1965 to 1988. Their three children were a son, as well as twins, a son and a daughter. Since 1984 she lived with Marie-Luise Könneker, together with her son in the same household in Bern. Fischer-Homberger died on 21 March 2019.
Selected works
- Das zirkuläre Irresein. Juris, Zürich 1968 (Zürcher medizingeschichtliche Abhandlungen, Neue Reihe, Band 53).
- Hypochondrie. Melancholie bis Neurose: Krankheiten und Zustandsbilder. Huber, Bern 1970.
- Die traumatische Neurose. Vom somatischen zum sozialen Leiden. Huber, Bern 1975, {{ISBN|3-456-80123-8}}; Psychosozial, Giessen 2004, {{ISBN|3-89806-275-9}}.
- Geschichte der Medizin. Springer, Berlin/ Heidelberg/ New York 1975; 2. Auflage ebenda 1977, {{ISBN|3-540-07225-X}}.
- Krankheit Frau und andere Arbeiten zur Medizingeschichte der Frau. Huber, Bern 1979, {{ISBN|3-456-80688-4}}.
- Medizin vor Gericht. Gerichtsmedizin von der Renaissance bis zur Aufklärung. Huber, Bern 1983, {{ISBN|3-456-81282-5}}.
- Götterspeisen, Teufelsküchen (hrsg. mit Marie-Luise Könneker). Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1990, {{ISBN|3-630-86732-4}}.
- Hunger – Herz – Schmerz – Geschlecht. Brüche und Fugen im Bild von Leib und Seele. eFeF, Bern 1997, {{ISBN|3-905561-14-X}}.
References
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External links
- [https://boris.unibe.ch/67731/1/BoschungMedizingeschichteanderUniversittBern_ger.pdf Die Ära Esther Fischer-Homberger, 1978-1984], by Urs Boschung, in Medizingeschichte an der Universität Bern. Von den Anfängen bis 2011. pgs. 94–106. {{in lang |de}}
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Category:Scientists from Zurich
Category:Swiss women psychiatrists
Category:Swiss medical historians
Category:University of Zurich alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Bern
Category:20th-century Swiss non-fiction writers
Category:20th-century Swiss women writers